Social & Legal Aspects Books

Daniel Domscheit-Berg An explosive and deeply revealing exposé of the ‘World’s Most Dangerous Website,’ by former WikiLeaks insider and spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Since its launch in 2006, WikiLeaks has rapidly grown into the most powerful a...

The inside story of Facebook, told with the full, exclusive cooperation of founder Mark Zuckerberg and the company’s other leaders. In August, 2008, Facebook signed up its 100 millionth user. Eight months later its 200 millionth user signed up. Today it is over 350 million users. This pheno...

 Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal reveals how we can harness the power of games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness. More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young person in the United States will spend ten thousand hours gaming by the age of twe...

Written by the world’s leading experts on finding people and helping people avoid being found, How to Disappear covers everything from tools for disappearing to discovering and eliminating the nearly invisible tracks and clues we tend to leave wherever we go. Learn the three keys to disappeari...

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students....

It's been known for years that usability testing can dramatically improve products. But with a typical price tag of $5,000 to $10,000 for a usability consultant to conduct each round of tests, it rarely happens. In this how-to companion to Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usabilit...

James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unli...

Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unpreceden...

In Feb 2006, a Danish newspaper printed twelve highly provocative caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. The drawings landed on the internet and quickly circled the globe. As a direct result, riots ensued and at least 139 people died. This is just one example of overconnection. The consequences of an ...

'Tom Chatfield's "Fun Inc." is the most elegant and comprehensive defence of the status of computer games in our culture I have read, as well as a helpful compendium of research...The numbers surrounding the sector are certainly thudding. By the end of 2008, annual sales of video games - n...

From the world's preeminent people finder-an insider's guide to disappearing How to Disappear is the authoritative and comprehensive guide for people who seek to protect their privacy as well as for anyone who’s ever entertained the fantasy of disappearing-whether actually dropping out of s...

Have more fun and get more done with your Mac! This bestselling guide to getting the most out of Apple's consumer line of computers - including the iMac, MacBook, MacBook Air, and Mac Mini - is written in a breezy, easy-to-follow style. "How to Do Everything: Mac, Second Edition" explains ...

Eyetracking is a hot new field in user interface design. What better way to explore this growing field than with master usability expert Jakob Nielsen showing the way? Jakob and his coauthor Kara Pernice train thousands of people each year on Web usability, and in this book they demonstrate what can...

"A highly readable and fascinating account of the number-driven world we now live in." The Wall Street Journal In a world teeming with data, we ourselves become the math nerds' most prized specimens. Stephen Baker, a "Business Week" senior writer, takes us on a guided tour (no...

This is your one stop guide to six great Macromedia tools for building Web sites. It's like a Web site in a book! First, there's some Web site insight to help you decide what you want your site to do. Then it's into the nitty gritty of making it happen building with Dreamweaver, adding animation wit...

In a world teeming with data, we ourselves become the maths gurus' most prized specimens. In "They've Got Your Number", Stephen Baker takes us on a guided tour (no maths required) through an unprecedented new era, in which mathematicians are starting to map individual human behaviour - wha...

'Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.' --Jimmy Wales Wikipedia has been hailed as the most revolutionary aid to the spread of human knowledge since Gutenberg's printing press. In less than a de...

Sams Teach Yourself Facebook(R) in 10 Minutes Third Edition Sherry Kinkoph Gunter Sams Teach Yourself Facebook(R) in 10 Minutes, Third Edition offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through 10-minute lessons, you'll learn everything you need to know to quic...

In Overconnected, Bill Davidow explains how the almost miraculous success of the Internet in connecting the world through the Worldwide Web has also created a unique set of hazards, in effect overconnecting us, with the direst of consequences. The benefits of our recently arrived-at state of connec...

Faster broadband, better computer systems, cheaper mobile phones, cloud computing - technology promises so much but can it deliver if we don't know how to use it effectively when we are only using a fraction of its capability? Stories in this book will sound familiar as you recognise yourself or fri...

The computer has revolutionised the modern age of communication and information. It has touched every part of modern working life to the extent that it would now be inconceivable without it. It has increased the speed and power of complex calculations and is without a doubt one of the Twentieth Cent...

Computing isn't simply about hardware or software, or calculation or applications. Computing, writes Paul Rosenbloom, is an exciting and diverse, yet remarkably coherent, scientific enterprise that is highly multidisciplinary yet maintains a unique core of its own. In On Computing, Rosenbloom propos...

A full color, step-by-step resource for getting acclimated to the Photoshop CS6 environment. This book guides users through basic Photoshop CS6 tasks and also introduces some intermediate techniques to help them create images with impact. The book covers the most important features of Photoshop CS6 ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2012, held in Artiminio, Tuscany, Italy, June 12- 15, 2012. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 22 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Sequences and Their Applications, SETA 2012, held in Waterloo, Canada, in June 2012. The 28 full papers presented together with 2 invited papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissio...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications, Mobilware 2011, held in London, UK, in June 2011. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON 2011) held in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China in October 2011. The 55 revised full papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions and focus on research in te...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions IPCAI 2012, held in Pisa, Italy, on June 27, 2012. The 17 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions during two rounds of reviewing ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, CSR 2012, held in Nizhny Novgorod in July 2012. The 28 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. CSR 2012 was one of the events of the Alan Turing...

Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics! Here's the fastest, easiest way to get up and running on your third-generation iPad. Color photos and screenshots on every page with clear instructions help you get started right away. Follow along and learn how to use the camera and video recorder, download conten...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the "7th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems" (BROADNETS 2010) held in October 2010 in Athens, Greece. The 39 revised full papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions...

A handy guide for any senior new to the iPad -- covers iPad 2 and the new iPad. The iPad is a tablet computer that is stylish, versatile and easy to use; and there is no reason why it should be the preserve of the younger generation. iPad for Seniors in easy steps covers all of the settings that can...

This book demonstrates that the concept of an instruction sequence offers a novel and useful viewpoint on issues relating to diverse subjects in computer science. Selected issues relating to well-known subjects from the theory of computation and the area of computer architecture are rigorously inves...

Human information and communication technology (ICT) implants have developed for many years in a medical context. Such applications have become increasingly advanced, in some cases modifying fundamental brain function. Today, comparatively low-tech implants are being increasingly employed in non-the...

How to Make Money on the Internet is the essential guide to making some extra cash on the side or even earning a living online. This clear, accessible and realistic book, with helpful screenshots, will take you through some of the many arenas in which you can do this, and how to go about it. Learn h...

A Journey Through Cultures: Metaphors for Guiding the Design of Cross-Cultural Interactive Systems provides novel approaches to help HCI designers communicate their intent as to why they want to promote the users' contact with cultural diversity. The author's present five cultural viewpoint metaphor...

Computing as a discipline is maturing rapidly. However, with maturity often comes a plethora of subdisciplines, which, as time progresses, can become isolationist. The subdisciplines of modelling, metamodelling, ontologies and modelling languages within software engineering e.g. have, to some degree...

Creativity and rationale comprise an essential tension in design. They are two sides of the coin; contrary, complementary, but perhaps also interdependent. Designs always serve purposes. They always have an internal logic. They can be queried, explained, and evaluated. These characteristics are what...

COOP 2012 is the tenth COOP conference, marking twenty years from the first conference in 1992. In this special anniversary edition we asked researchers and practitioners to reflect on what have been the successes and the failures in designing cooperative systems, and what challenges still need to b...

"Coordinative Practices in the Building Process: An Ethnographic Perspective" presents the principles of the practice-oriented research programmes in the CSCW and HCI domains, explaining and examining the ideas and motivations behind basing technology design on ethnography. The focus throughout is o...